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From Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Subject Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard?
Date Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:50:49 -0500
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Noob wrote:

>
> The main problems with "copy-right" are 1) its excessive length
> and 2) the legal arsenal "rights holders" have obtained in the
> past 20 years.

1) (excessive length) The length of copyright is an artifact of software
industry losing the effectiveness of patent protection. The length of
patent protection is about right for software protection to make most
development economically viable. Copyright turned out to be the only
protection with enough teeth to protect software.

2 (legal arsenal) The first time you wake up one morning to discover
that you have paid the development costs for a handful of competing
companies, starts with an upset stomach over breakfast a three
martini lunch and tears in your beer that night. Right after the aspirin
in the morning for the hangover the calls to legal start with,
"Do something now!!!"  When you are the victim or the preconceived
victim it gets personal just thinking about all the mid-night to morning
sessions that you will never be paid for.

Independent of industry IP violation is a personal emotional response
in creative people. All I have talked to expressed the view that it is
like arriving home to find a burglar has has been there in your absence.

Personally I would liked to have seen a respected software protection
scheme closer to a patent and similar in implementation to a registered
copyright. Something like 10-15 years duration, specific claims but
costing closer to trademark costs. There is little or no chance that this
could happen now.

Regards


Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited

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    Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-02-03 01:48 +0100
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